Enough lights for these budding plants??? PICS

there is one 100 Watt CFL, one 75 Watt CFL, one 20 watt floresent plant grow tube, and one 60 watt plant grow bulb. area is about 2 feet by 4 feet and there are mirrors on two of the walls. Only two plants second week of flowering. Is there enough light?

no, no, no... get some more cfl's and get rid of mirrors

yea, get rid of the aluminum too. It refracts the light in who know's what direction. Use flat white paint. I'd use a 150-250 w hpsor mh rather than fluro's but that's just me.

Ha, ha, ha, omg my side hurts. Ow Ow, stop its to funny.

give him a break dude. He's trying and I've seen worse. He should get something to smoke but more importantly, it's a learning process.

God you guys are stupid . Didn't you know marijuana plants are vain. They love seeing their leafs blowing in the simulated wind. lol All jokes aside, I can see how mirrors sound like a good idea, but there not and here is why.

1. They produce hot spots that will burn your plants

2. Believe it or not, less light is reflected. Yep it is true, see a mirror is actually just a piece of glass with a blacked out back. So the light has to travel thru the glass 2 times (once in, once out) and the glass bends the light creating the hot spots.

you can get sheets of wall covering thats black on one side and white on the other, thats suppose to be good!!

as others have said get more lights, you needed more lights weeks ago. cfls are best and correctly used when you can get them all around a plant. i realize that sounds like a lot of trouble and it is. but you need to get as many lights ALL AROUND your plants that you can. and yours are a bit too stretched to get them all around yours, but do try.

learn from this grow, good luck on next one.

Ery

also get that incandescent light out of there, replace it with a cfl, I assume that is what you refered to as a grow light but that lamp can turn your space into an oven.

Erysichthon said:

as others have said get more lights, you needed more lights weeks ago. cfls are best and correctly used when you can get them all around a plant. i realize that sounds like a lot of trouble and it is. but you need to get as many lights ALL AROUND your plants that you can. and yours are a bit too stretched to get them all around yours, but do try.

learn from this grow, good luck on next one.

Ery

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Though CFL's will do the job, They are by no means the best. If you have 400 watts worth of CFL's (28400 lumens), and you compare it to 400 watts of MH/HPS (55000 lumens). The advantage of the CFL's is you can put them closer but a ventalated HPS/MH can be put close as well. The HID lamps cost more but your yeild per watt, color spectrum, and quality of the marijuana is much better. Also putting lights "all around the plant is good, but most people grow more than one plant and you dont want direct light hitting the underside of the leaf (hence the non reflective ground)

This is exactly how my first grow room looked like.....Hey man more lights.....

you need mylar - not mirrors or aluminum